Example sentences of "[noun prp] by [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore a new link road was created joining Westburn Avenue to Baberton Mains Hill by passing beneath the Edinburgh/Carstairs railway line . |
| 2 | ‘ Michael would get into Rolls-Royces by leaping across the pavement and jumping in head first , ’ recalled Reed . |
| 3 | The King himself , sensing the popular mood and indeed sharing it , marked the victory of the Red Army at Stalingrad by presenting to the Soviet government the ‘ Sword of Stalingrad ’ as a symbol of British respect . |
| 4 | The State made him the ecclesiastical head of the Church of England by trampling on the opinions of the relevant ecclesiastical authority . |
| 5 | They did n't really need it , of course , since it was a lovely warm summer 's day , but the twins clearly thought it a great adventure , busily insisting on helping Ross by scampering about the bay in search of small pieces of wood to add to the bonfire . |
| 6 | The sword was evidently the token of gift in a ceremony perhaps similar to that in which King Edgar granted privileges to Glastonbury by placing on the altar an ivory horn , which he ordered to be cut in half and preserved so that it could be offered as testimony in future . |
| 7 | By contrast , the Reagan Administration justified its invasion of Grenada by pointing to the danger faced by a small group of American medical students , a rationale that was rebutted by international law bodies . |
| 8 | Some Georgian officials suspect that Alabama is deviously trying to steal development away from Atlanta by turning off the city 's tap . |
| 9 | We would be very grateful to anyone who is prepared to obtain sponsorship for DIAL UK by running in the Great North Run . |
| 10 | MRS Barbara Bush has stepped up her relentlessly engaging campaign to become America 's version of the Queen Mum by dashing to the rescue of a much-loved and out-dated institution — the Salvation Army . |
| 11 | The Bebington Club can clinch promotion at the final fixture in Wales in August by finishing in the top three . |
| 12 | THE five presidents of Central America kept the beleaguered regional peace process alive yesterday with an agreement that bolstered the governments of Nicaragua and El Salvador by calling for the demobilisation of rebel forces in both countries . |
| 13 | Wirgman influenced the development of Western-style painting in Japan by serving as the first foreign teacher to artists painting in the Western style . |
| 14 | I have sought to demonstrate in this book that an attempt to alter the shape of Europe by compromising with the ‘ Maastricht philosophy ’ must necessarily end , by faster means or by slower , with the political centralisation of the Community . |
| 15 | Again and again , Tracy upstaged Gable by returning from the point of death with a weak smile until Gable finally dropped Tracy and yelled , ‘ Die , goddammit , Spence ! |
| 16 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 17 | The only hope was to try and paddle to the bank , then work our way back into the safe waters of the Cherwell by pulling on the branches of the shrubs and trees that overhung the river . |
| 18 | In 1964 , he moved to Trinidad to become Dean of Students , which was a promotion , at the UWI campus there , continuing the work he had begun in Kingston by stressing to the students the importance of discipline , physical fitness , responsibility and such like — in other words , all the values that had made him such a successful captain . |
| 19 | Some time before my arrival the permanent staff had surprised all the other R.A.F. prisoners in Germany by escaping from the camp by a tunnel . |
| 20 | Much damage was done to Hull by bombing in the Second World War , and the site of its first dock , built in the eighteenth century , is now a garden . |
| 21 | With due humility , Mozart recorded another debt to Haydn by dedicating to the older composer the six finest of his 23 string quartets . |
| 22 | The Portfolio added to its stake in W H Smith by subscribing to the July 1991 rights issue at 300p a share . |